piers mason
Mediums Used
Masters Award, European Fine Art Winchester/Barcelona
Post Graduate Certificate of Education, Fine Art Greenwich
Bachelors Award, Fine Art St Albans
I Formally trained as a painter, but a chance sequence of events led me to sculpture. I realised then that my perception of space and movement was not a flat interpretation but something tangible, fluid but almost solid at the same time.
When I sculpt, I feel atoms and particles, the very essence of the material moving and assembling into order. In life I see these particles dancing and celebrating existence.
The building blocks of life are literally in my hands. Hard, rigid and seemingly unyielding sheets of metal, bent, folded, melted and formed into shape.
Like you, I am a product of millions of years of evolution, constructing and giving emotional values and labels to these particles.
Being able to recreate the incredible manifestations that life has evolved into is a most exciting feeling for me.
I have always had a fascination with animals and their environment, but this became heightened after living and working with communities in the Maasai Mara in Kenya and witnessing the fragility of it all. This inspires me to recreate endangered species. The painstaking detail is almost a kind of worship of the sheer beauty that abounds us.
Sculptures by piers mason
Credentials
Qualifications
MA Fine Art, S.t Albans and Winchester
P.G.C.E Art,MA Fine Art, S.t Albans and Winchester
P.G.C.E ArtExhibitions
yes
Awards
Piers is one of Britain`s finest emerging Sculptors.
He has unparalleled attention to detail and form with unique materials and techniques. Exploring the boundaries of traditional sculpture while working with marine grade stainless steel, brass, and coper which enables him to create strikingly realistic pieces.
He creates one off pieces out of recycled metals that belies its past, drawing your attention away from the material, shifting your focus to the character and soul of the animals he creates.
Art Consultant for income generating community projects in developing countries.
Voluntary Services Overseas, Project Director and facilitator of Vocational Arts and Craft project in disabled Primary/Secondary school in Kenya.
Founder, Director and Trainer of The Masaku Brand, Fair Trade community Art and Craft project empowering Maasai women in Kenya Massai Mara.
Visiting lecturer, University of Hertfordshire.
Otter bench commission for Lag Wood, Hassocks, East Sussex
